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Protesters next to barricades during a protest at Hong Kong Baptist University in Kowloon Tong area yesterday. Hong Kong is in its sixth month of mass protests, which were originally triggered by a now withdrawn extradition bill and have since turned into a wider pro-democracy movement. – EPA pic, November 14, 2019.

SOARING Disney shares lifted Wall Street to fresh records yesterday while stocks elsewhere in the world sagged as new signs emerged that Washington and Beijing are not as close to signing a trade deal as investors had hoped. Asian trading suffered also from violent Hong Kong protests that showed no sign of letting up, while US investors evaluated testimony by Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell before Congress.

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